The Weight of the Canvas To look at the surviving works of Albert Gebhard is to confront a specific, grounded reality from the late nineteenth century. His 1896 oil painting, Homely Shore (or Kotoinen ranta), does not rely on grand gestures or abstract confusion. Instead, it presents a clear, technical command over the medium of oil on canvas. The work exists as a piece of a private collection, stripped of the noise of modern galleries…